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Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor Maria Tzortziou and her research team have been selected to receive a 2019 NASA Group Achievement Award for their work on a two-year, multi-agency field campaign program in the Chesapeake Bay. The Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS), which involved participants from NASA, the EPA, and NOAA, sought to better understand and ultimately represent and predict the atmospheric chemistry and complex air flow in coastal areas where approximately 40% of the U.S. population resides. Among the main objectives of the program has been to link

Scoring highly in several categories nationally, The City College of New York is a top performer on social mobility, remains one of the most diverse campuses, and has one of the best undergraduate engineering programs in the country. This is according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Colleges rankings published today. The following is how City College fares in the annual evaluation of America’s top degree-granting schools: #17 in Top Performers on Social Mobility (tie); #17 in Campus Ethnic Diversity; #93 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (tie) at schools whose highest degree

Supported by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, physicists at The City College of New York are embarking on a four-year research project to develop chip-scale quantum emulators. The outcome could include the ability to solve diverse computationally intractable problems from protein folding and neural networks to the dynamics of financial markets. Also known as quantum simulators, emulators are used to simulate computationally complex and experimentally inaccessible problems using a controllable quantum system. “Such a simulator is a task-specific device that mimics the

The City College of New York ranks second among the 10 best value colleges nationally in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education 2020 College Rankings released today. CCNY also scores in the first decile for environment, a category that reflects diversity on campus. These latest rankings validate two of CCNY’s traditional fortes: providing a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, and as a remarkably diverse institution with a student body representing more than 150 nationalities. In the overall WSJ/THE rankings, CCNY placed joint 205 out of 801

The City College of New York’s nationally renowned diversity is getting an additional boost. CCNY is the recipient of a Postdoctoral Partnership Initiative award from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for promising early career scholars from historically underrepresented groups. The two-year fellowship is one of three awarded by ACLS to support institutional efforts to increase the diversity of college and university faculty in the nation. Haverford College and Temple University are the other recipients. Each institution will seek to select fellows from the ranks of talented

A new rechargeable high voltage manganese dioxide zinc battery, exceeding the 2 V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry, is the latest invention by City College of New York researchers. With a voltage of 2.45-2.8V, the alkaline MnO2|Zn battery, developed by Dr. Gautam G. Yadav and his group in the CCNY-based CUNY Energy Institute, could break the long dominance of flammable and expensive lithium (Li)-ion batteries in the market. To break the previously daunting 2 V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry, primary inventor Yadav and his team interfacially engineered two different aqueous electrolytes

The City College of New York’s MFA in Film Program students Maggie Kamal Girgis and Ley Comus are both recipients of the first-ever Ostrovsky Family Fund Award in honor of Chantal Akerman. This year's winners receive up to $4000 that will go toward their film production expenses. Chantal Akerman was an internationally celebrated Belgian experimental filmmaker and served as Distinguished Lecturer in Film at CCNY from ‎2011-2015. In honor of her memory and impact, the Ostrovsky Family Fund developed the award to help support the thesis film projects of second-year MFA students. Students competed

Four alumni from The City College of New York’s Division of Humanities and the Arts are recipients of the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded to students pursuing master or doctoral degrees in the humanities and arts. The scholarship is made possible by CCNY alumnus Sydney Jacoff, and each of the recipients receive $10,000 for their studies. The late Jacoff graduated from CCNY in 1935 and helped build and grow his family enterprise into the Great Neck Saw Manufacturers. Alumnus Anton Pavlov, philosophy major, chose to pursue a master’s degree in philosophy at the

Myriam Sarachik, distinguished professor in the Division of Science at The City College of New York, is the recipient of the 2020 American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. The medal is the society’s largest prize, recognizing the achievements of researchers from across all fields of physics. The honor is in recognition of Sarachik’s “fundamental contributions to the physics of electronic transport in solids and molecular magnetism,” and it will be received along with a $50,000 prize at a ceremony on January 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Sarachik has investigated

The City College of New York is one of the 224 best colleges in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. The education services company lists CCNY in the Best in the Northeast section of its " 2020 Best Colleges: Region by Region" website feature that posted on August 6, 2019. The website feature salutes a total of 656 colleges that The Princeton Review recommends over five regions: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and International. The colleges that made the "Best in the Northeast" list are located in eleven Northeastern states and The District of Columbia. In addition to City